New Delhi. Not less than 116 individuals have been crushed to dying in a stampede throughout a Hindu non secular celebration in northern India on Tuesday, a senior native official mentioned.
“Medical doctors have given us a dying toll of not less than 100 individuals,” Ashish Kumar instructed reporters, elevating the earlier toll given by authorities docs.
Greater than 150 individuals have been admitted to hospitals after the incident in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district, well being official Umesh Tripathi mentioned. The dying toll may rise, he added.
Worshippers had gathered to listen to a guru converse at celebrations honouring the Hindu deity Shiva within the metropolis of Hathras, however a sandstorm prompted panic as the group was dispersing.
Many have been crushed or trampled to dying, and a few fell right into a ditch that runs alongside a highway.
“The attendants have been leaving the venue when a mud storm blinded them, resulting in a riot and the next tragic incident,” Superintendent Chaitra V. of Aligarh metropolis in Uttar Pradesh state instructed AFP.
A number of hours after the tragedy, he reported that the “dying toll” was “116”, with not less than 18 injured.
Senior police officer Shalabh Mathur mentioned “extra individuals had turned up than had taken permission.”
Many of the lifeless have been ladies, Uttar Pradesh’s chief medical officer Umesh Kumar Tripathi instructed reporters, including that “many injured” have been taken to hospital by dozens of ambulances.
Crying women and men waited exterior the Etah morgue for affirmation of the dying of their kinfolk.
“When the sermon was over, everybody began operating,” one parishioner, Shakuntala, who gave solely her first identify, instructed the Press Belief of India information company.
“Folks fell right into a ditch subsequent to the highway. They fell on prime of one another and have been crushed to dying,” he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced compensation of $2,400 to the households of these killed and $600 to these injured within the “tragic incident.”
“My deepest condolences to those that have misplaced their family members (…). I want a speedy restoration to all these injured,” Modi wrote on social media.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered an inquiry into the incident.
Mass pilgrimages
Unhappy incidents are widespread throughout India’s main non secular celebrations, which draw enormous crowds of pilgrims to sacred websites.
In 2016, not less than 112 individuals have been killed in an explosion brought on by fireworks at a temple the place the Hindu New 12 months was being celebrated within the state of Kerala.
The blast flattened buildings and began a fireplace at a temple complicated.
In 2013, 115 devotees have been killed in a stampede on a bridge close to a temple in Madhya Pradesh.
Some 400,000 individuals had gathered on the web site and the stampede was triggered by rumours that the bridge was about to break down.
In 2008, 224 pilgrims have been killed and greater than 400 injured in a stampede at a hilltop temple within the northern metropolis of Jodhpur.
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